Customer Reviews

Visioneer OneTouch 7300 USB Ultra-Slimline Flatbed Scanner

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

Have owned 4 flatbed scanners up til now, 3 of which were visioneers. I use these scanners for archiving books and magazines. The 7300 good features: small, slim design. Easy to use for scanning books and magazines. USB powered. THE BAD:I scan all my images at 300 dpi and 8.5 x 11 inches. The 7300 took over 60 seconds to scan a color page (grayscale is about 25 seconds). In contrast, my previous scanner, a visioneer 9320, did a color page in 25 seconds. Also, it saves everything in .max format (in its paperport software), a format only paperport can use. You can convert it into jpeg format but that is just an extra step to do. I use adobe elements to edit the scan and it doesn't recognize the .max format so every scan has to be converted. So I sit a press the enter key = to the number of scans I made. It's operation was quiet except for an annoying squeaking and popping sounds it randomly made. I literally scan thousands of pages every week so speed is important. MY RECOMMENDATION: I have owned a visoneer 9320, 7300, a HP 2400 scanner and a visoneer 7100. The best one is the visioneer 7100 -- Has decent scanning speed, color or grayscale and the scans can be made in bmp format instead of the paperport max format. Adobe elements can open bmp format and when I use elements to convert to jpeg, the pictures, in my opinion, are better looking. All scanners wear out at 25,000 to 30,000 scans (the glass "wears out" with minute scratches on its surface and effects the scan) so if you scan alot of pages, like me, the $50-60 cost of the 7100 is easy on the wallet.

I was looking forward to a new scanner after my HP died after just a year. I purchased this one based on the several good reviews on Amazon and other sites.

Now that I have the scanner I am sorely disappointed. The picture quality is horrible. No matter the tweaking I do in the scanner dialog, the picture is faded and grainy.

The software itself is the least useful interface I've ever worked with. The "auto" buttons makes the image worse, the image area recognition has never yet gotten it right, and the most useful feature only applies if you are sending the scan to Paperport, something I never want to do.

when i got the scanner i was thrilled.. it was ultra slim and was very light to carry.. the usb power connection meant no extra cables.. i loaded up the software and then started the problems.. it just wouldnt install properly.. thats when i discovered that this particular model does not have a Vista compatible driver, from the Visioneer site.. then i called their support staff.. and three calls later, after having spent twenty minutes on hold.. i was told that the driver may be release 'soon'.. so for now i have to use it with another laptop that has windows XP as the operating system..
the good news .. i mentioned before, its light and slim...its cheap .. great for OCR work and scanning pictures..not any expert on the quality of the pictures i scanned but they came out alright.. and fairly sturdy.. so its a great buy.. but look out for a Vista driver if you have Vista on your PC before considering this product.

I knew that Visioneer had a bad reputation, but when my HP scanner finally died after six years, I picked this one up primarily because I had an Office Max gift card and that's all they had in this price range. The software installation bluescreened my computer in Windows XP - twice. I tried to run the software anyway and found it confusing and hard to use. It's going back to the store. Look at HP - I've had pretty good luck there - or Canon, which is what I'm going to buy once I get my money back. Visioneer has worked hard over the years to earn its lousy reputation - save yourself the trouble of finding this out for yourself.

UPDATE: I researched a bit and found that Visioneer's software will not work with Windows SP2! On their site they advise that you do a full deletion of SP2 and then install their software. Make sure they've updated their software or offered a patch if you want this scanner, but since SP2 has been around a while, it tells you something about this company, doesn't it???

had it for a year - very good scans, much faster than budget Canon scanner and feeds itself from one USB cable. Software is easy to use, again better than Canon that died after 3 years of use.

I'm pretty tech savy, and This is by far the worst experience ive had with ANY piece of electronica ever. Dont let the low price fool you, theres a reason for that. The drivers are terrible for this, Uninstalling this scanner requires 4 different programs, tech support charges you money for help (even though I bought this 2 weeks ago), and if you actually get the scanner to work it will take a good 25 minutes to get the 1200 dpi resolution scan. Also the software it comes bundled with (Scansoft Paperport) is horrible, i have 2 gbs of Ram and it ran as if i had 128 mb. the TWAIN compatibility is awful, and it isnt compatible with any third party software. I wish there was something good I could write about this scanner, Aftr 2 weeks I got fed up, returned the scanner and bought an HP. People please do not hurt yourself by buying this awful piece of junk.

Instructions were clear. Steps outlined. Seemed foolproof. After installing the new software, hookup with the included USB cable was a breeze. Great machine and easy to use. Software was user-friendly. Check out this machine and you will be pleased.

I was very excited to buy this scanner and was pleased with its size and weight. However, if you have a Vista operating system, like I do, IT WILL NOT WORK! The company told me that they stopped selling this product over a year ago and there are no driver updates available for this product. If you have an older computer and an older operating system this product might work for you. But as for me it was a waste of money!

Color, grayscale and monochrome modes work well with Windows and Linux. Windows installation was a little clumsy, perhaps because the drivers for an older Visioneer scanner were still installed. Linux immediately recognized the scanner.

I bought it several months ago. I gave it 5 stars because it fits my scanning needs and worked without a glitch from the git go. Portability is a big plus. Whenever I need it away from home, I just put it in my backpack along with my laptop.

As one of the previous customers mentioned, this model saves images only in .max paperport format. This is very inconvenient indeed. However if you use OCR software with the scanner it usually lets you save scanned images in TIFF (lossless) format recognizable by image editing programs like Adobe Photoshop. That's how I scan images on this one.

I mostly use this scanner for OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and it works smoothly with Abbyy FineReader. So, no issues here with TWAIN compatibility. Scanning speed at 300-600 dpi for grayscale and b&w is adequate.

I wish the underside of the cover would be black not white. When scanning text, it would prevent bleeding through from the back of the page.

For under $80 with no tax and free delivery, it's a good buy.